http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/a/ en-us Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:34:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338281/posts Even though the DC protest was much, much, bigger every little bit still helps. I did not see any SRM coverage so all the more reason to cover the one that happened in Phoenix today! Lots of flags and love of country on display . It happened in front of the State Senate. If they continue to ignore us using the first they will eventually see us use the 2nd amendment. myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338281/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:34:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315614/posts WASHINGTON – The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win. Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take "a few years," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale in the desperately poor country a much longer proposition. He acknowledged that the Taliban has a firm hold on parts of the country President Barack Obama has called vital to U.S. security. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315614/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253811/posts TALLAHASSEE -- State Sen. Jim King, a Jacksonville Republican and 22-year veteran of the Legislature, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the lawmaker's longtime spokeswoman said Saturday. “During a recent routine post-legislative session checkup, Senator Jim King was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. While Senator King plans to seek additional medical counsel and aggressive treatment, he is aware that this particular type of cancer is difficult to treat and manage, and that the outcomes are, at best, guarded," said Sarah Bascom, a political consultant and longtime spokeswoman for King, in a statement. Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253811/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 12:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240964/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Two Missouri Brothers Among Those Indicted in $4 Million Nationwide Spamming Conspiracy Millions of E-Mail Addresses Illegally Harvested from Computers at 2,000 Schools KANSAS CITY, MO—Two Missouri men and their company are among those indicted by a federal grand jury in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized more than 2,000 colleges and universities in a scheme that sold more than $4 million worth of products to students, announced Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Amir Ahmad Shah, 28, of St. Louis., his brother, Osmaan Ahmad... KansasCity.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240964/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:49:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202560/posts Fish Studies Answer Flood Question by Brian Thomas, M.S.* According to the Bible, the world before Noah’s Flood, including the oceans, must have been idyllic. That was destroyed by the year-long global deluge, during which the earth’s land mass broke into continents, massive amounts of sediment were deposited and then partially eroded, and new and perhaps deeper oceans became more salty from continental runoff. If this historical picture is accurate, then at least one area of confusion needs to be addressed: How did “saltwater fish” live through all that?... ICR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202560/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:18:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164152/posts The traditional understanding of DNA has recently been transformed beyond recognition. DNA does not, as we thought, carry a linear, one-dimensional, one-way, sequential code—like the lines of letters and words on this page. And the 97% in humans that does not carry protein-coding genes is not, as many people thought, fossilized ‘junk’ left over from our evolutionary ancestors. DNA information is overlapping-multi-layered and multi-dimensional; it reads both backwards and forwards; and the ‘junk’ is far more functional than the protein code, so there is no fossilized history of evolution. No human engineer has ever even imagined, let alone designed an... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164152/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:40:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123725/posts Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man's... tg daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123725/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809414/posts BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi forces detained a suspect linked to networks bringing sophisticated roadside bombs into Iraq during a raid Friday in the main Shiite district in Baghdad. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr meanwhile issued a statement, his first since his call for peaceful resistance earlier this month. In it he blamed the United States for Iraq's problems. The suspect, who was detained by U.S. and Iraqi forces during a raid in the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, was believed to be tied to networks bringing the weapons known as explosively formed projectiles, or EFPs, into Iraq,... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809414/posts#comment Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1734022/posts Team expected to announce plan next week to get rights to land for a baseball-only stadium -- Cisco likely to be big sponsor - The Oakland A's are set to announce a major step forward next week in their plans to move down the Nimitz Freeway and build a 36,000-seat ballpark in Fremont. After months of negotiations, A's officials are ready to declare their intention to acquire the rights to a 143-acre site near the former Baylands racetrack, city-owned land that is now leased to Cisco Systems, sources close to the negotiations said Monday. The A's plan to announce... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1734022/posts#comment Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731045/posts RegisteredMedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731045/posts#comment Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726522/posts Last Friday, we posted Mark Kennedy's new television ad, which takes the Iraq war head-on. We expected it to be effective, and it has been. The Kennedy campaign has just finished its latest round of polling, and the new ad, combined with Kennedy's matchless work ethic and the Republican resurgence that we are seeing over most of the country, has sliced Democrat Amy Klobuchar's lead in half. Mark is now within single digits and closing fast. One more thought: yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the Wellstone plane crash that, together with his subsequent funeral, was one of the decisive... Powerline Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726522/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1714732/posts HOT DANG--IT'S FRIDAY!!! This thread is dedicated to your employers and co-workers. It's dedicated to the people you love and the people you hate. This thread is dedicated to all the office games and pranks. This thread is dedicated to the office flirts and the office tards. We salute the fond memory of the office snitch and the promoted kiss-@ss. We dedicate this thread to those that frequent the restroom and those caught in the janitor's closet. We even salute you, Guy That Wears Way Too Much Cologne Here's To Office Politics: Rock On OFST! McGrall-Hill.com (I'm telling you it's legit) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1714732/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705909/posts From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-09-20 23:11 Dr Koenraad Elst, one of Belgium’s best orientalists and an occasional contributor to this website (if I had time I would translate more of his Dutch-language contributions into English), told me last week that he thinks “Islam is in decline, despite its impressive demographic and military surge” – which according to Dr Elst is merely a “last upheaval.” He acknowledges, however, that this decline can take some time (at least in terms of the individual human life span) and that it is possible that Islam will succeed in becoming the... Brussels Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705909/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:00:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1704414/posts (Sept. 19) - Adopted two days after her first birthday, Sarah Culberson grew up the youngest daughter in a close-knit family from Morgantown, W.Va. She was surrounded by love in her home, but always wondered about her roots. Searching to unlock the secrets of her past, at age 22, Culberson began searching for her birth parents. She quickly learned that her mom had died a dozen years earlier from cancer. Culberson was crushed. A few years later, a private investigator helped her locate her birth father, along with an unbelievable surprise. Culberson wasn't an average suburban girl -- she was... http://articles.news.aol.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1704414/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:02:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702278/posts NEW DELHI (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI's attack on Islam has stirred anger in India with the head of the National Commission for Minorities saying he sounded like a medieval crusader. Pope Benedict provoked worldwide outcry with comments Tuesday during a visit to his native Germany in which he talked about the "issue of jihad, holy war", a term used by Islamic extremists to justify acts of terror. "The language used by the pope sounds like that of his 12th-century counterpart who ordered the crusades," said Hamid Ansari, chairman of the influential National Commission for Minorities. The commission's role includes... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702278/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700511/posts WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Biomedical Research today applauds the stiff sentencing imposed against three members of a radical animal-rights activist group, known as SHAC USA. Federal District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson delivered the sentencing against the group and three of its six members – who were convicted last March on all charged counts for their roles in a campaign to terrorize an animal research company and its employees. Judge Thompson stopped short of delivering the maximum punishment available, though she did sentence the SHAC entity to five years of probation plus restitution and assessments... http://www.christiannewswire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700511/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:01:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691419/posts Fat is not a feminist issue, as Susie Orbach once claimed. Fat is a class issue. Rich, educated people are not fat; you see almost no children in private schools who are overweight. Fatness and obesity are directly related to lower education and lower incomes. What is sad is that at a time when this country is richer than ever and ought to have better schools than ever, we have far more fat people than ever — a dangerous explosion of flab. Last week the Department of Health issued a report grimly called Forecasting Obesity to 2010 and its findings... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2330255,00.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691419/posts#comment Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1671828/posts 52 REASONS NOT TO MOW 37 WAYS TO HELP TREES Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns. Art Buchwald: People shouldn't be judged by the length of their grass. In 2003 through now, the world has seen floods, famine, fire, mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new... Fruitarian Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1671828/posts#comment Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659565/posts PLYMOUTH, Mass. (July 2) - In this village settled by thrifty Pilgrims, you can still buy penny candy for a penny, but tourist Alan Ferguson doubts he'll be able to dig any 1-cent pieces out of his pockets. He rarely carries pennies because "they take up a lot of room for how much value they have." Instead, like so many other Americans, he dumps his pennies into a bucket back home in Sarasota, Fla. Pity the poor penny! It packs so little value that merry kids chuck pennies into the fountain near the candy store, just to watch them splash... http://articles.news.aol.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659565/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jul 2006 04:43:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654132/posts Marijuana users can be arrested for drugged driving weeks after they toast a joint, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a Jackson County appeal. A veteran prosecutor hailed the ruling as a correct interpretation of the zero-tolerance law that will make enforcement easier. A longtime defense attorney said the high court has opened the floodgates on overreaching government. "This goes to show the Supreme Court does not seem to care about individual rights," Jackson attorney Jerry Engle said. At issue were cases from Jackson and Grand Traverse counties. The local case involved the prosecution of Dennis Kurts for driving... http://www.mlive.com/news/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654132/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:52:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651409/posts BOISE, Idaho - Most days, 6-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes and chase an arch-nemesis through Boise on Friday, serving the city as the superhero "Star" with assistance from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, The Idaho Statesman reported. When she donned her blue and metallic superhero costume, Star took on the super-powers of X-ray vision, superhuman strength, speed and blowing power _ and a mission: To capture the villain who had stolen a golden star from the Idaho Historical Museum. After Star was alerted by... http://www.comcast.net/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651409/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1646998/posts THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010, WHENEVER THEY NEXT COME UP FOR OFFICE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW; THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION -- THAT IS, UNLESS THEY DO NOT MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHO NEVER PAID INTO IT AND AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE BEING LEFT OUT. Grouped by Home State Alabama: Alaska: Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona: McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR),... snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1646998/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:25:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645417/posts June 7, 2006 — A federal judge ordered two attorneys to settle their dispute by using the children's playground game "rock, paper, scissors." The ruling yesterday by Judge Gregory Presnell of the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla., stated that he was so dissatisfied with the case's "latest in a series of Gordian knots" that he is fashioning "a new form of alternative dispute resolution." In the dispute at hand, the two attorneys could not agree about where to take the sworn statement of a witness in a case concerning payment of insurance claims. The judge's order states that the... http://abcnews.go.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645417/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:35:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642360/posts Senate Voted to End U. S. as a NationSurrender to Latin Invasion Now Clear Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - June 1Dobbs: The issue, as you said, that the nation would cease to exist, what do you mean by that? West: Well, the kind of provisions that are in the Senate... and it will be mainly Hispanic. It will be mainly Mexican. -- And so, what the question becomes is, do we want to become a northern section of Latin America? Do we cease to become literally an English- speaking people, become bilingual, and / or Spanish- speaking? And... http://www.americanpatrol.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642360/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:56:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640058/posts I am curious why none of the media covers the most important aspect of the Malvo shootings. If you look at Newspapers on the dates when the shootings are underway you discover something I find quite interesting. The shootings begin to dominate the news the day before the debate on the Iraq war starts and they catch them the day after the declaration of war??? If you ask most people "do you remember the debate about starting the second Iraq war", they will all answer "yes of course". But if you followup with the question "name one point in the... Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640058/posts#comment Mon, 29 May 2006 13:48:25 GMT